Comme des Garçons, Spring-Summer 1997

Rei Kawakubo, who founded the fashion label Comme des Garçons in 1969, is known for her conceptual avant-garde designs. The 'Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body’ show, also called her 'Lumps 'n Bumps’ collection, consisted of garments with bulbous shapes placed asymmetrically on the back, neck, chest, shoulders, hips, waist, stomach, and buttocks. With this collection, Kawakubo proposed a radical rethinking of the dressed body and subverted all expectations of female anatomical beauty.